Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost him to live? Brown University researchers fed the problem to an IBM 650 electronic computer, last week reported the answer: 21? a day. Caring nothing for variety or any other of life's spices, the computer solemnly accepted the facts that a man must have certain minimum quantities of protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus and five vitamins. Then its nerve cells went to work, concluded that only four foods are needed to sustain life: lard, beef liver, orange juice and soybean meal...
...boards will welcome candidates, with freshmen particularly encouraged to come out at this time. The competition lasts a minimum of eight weeks and is endorsed by most who have gone through it as good, wholesome, educational fun No experience is necessary...
Harvard has the upper hand in these negotiations and must first have a guarantee that most of the mentioned handicaps could be readily overcome and that the assured minimum rental would be sufficient to help Harvard athletics substantially. Only with these guarantees, should Harvard even consider the offer...
...Since the object of those who operate the source is to find a newly evolved society, we may presume that the channel used will be one that places a minimum burden of frequency and angular discrimination on the detector . . . The wide radio band from, say 1 mc to 10,000 mc, remains as the rational choice. For indisputable identification as artificial, one signal might contain, for example, a sequence of small prime numbers of pulses, or simple arithmetical sums...
MacIntyre has a punting average of 40.4 yards and can break Dick Clasby's varsity record Saturday. To have a chance at the mark, MacIntyre must kick at least three times (to reach the minimum) and must average over 41 yards during...